Walking Tours in portugal

The Peneda-Geres National Park lying in the north of Portugal in the Minho province, offers challenging walking for the more adventurous and experienced walker demanding quieter and more remote walking than our more typical self-guided tour. A truly beautiful area where tourism is in it's infancy, the remoter villages retain many of their ancient traditions and where farming owes little to modern methods. The route takes you through a wide range of landscape from rich meadows and lush pastures through deep, deciduous wooded valleys and up to the sparse vegetation of the higher ground where granite peaks rise to 1,545m.

This is Portugal's only National Park. You can expect to have this wild and beautiful landscape almost entirely to yourself, and enjoy a real sense of adventure as you explore this trail.

Our tour takes in the central (Geres) part of the Park and continues on to the lesser-visited northern (Peneda) area. Starting from the old spa town of Caldas do Geres, we walk over the Serra do Geres (taking in Pe de Cabril 1235m as an option) to Campo Geres, then on over the Serra Amarela, passing by the picturesque mountain villages of Brufe and Cutelo, through the spectacular valley up to Ermida, on to Soajo and then the far north of the Park at Peneda. The tour ends at Arcos de Valdavez, an attractive market town with plenty of good restaurants and local colour.

The tour is based on one-night stops at Geres, Ponte da Barca and Arcos;  two nights are spent at Soajo and Covide.